Comment on Anon crunches some numbers
DaddleDew@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Every invention or discovery sped up our development. Agriculture gave us excess time and energy to pursue other things than bare survival. Writing allowed us to better record and share ideas and knowledge. Mathematics allowed us to better understand the world. Fertilizer allowed us to boost our food production and population, leading to more people to help science and technology ahead. Computers allowed us to almost instantly solve problems that would have taken centuries to do by hand, further speeding up our technological development. All of it has been exponential so far.
The hunter-gatherer cultures we see today actually seem to have a lot of free time. Seems like technological and cultural progress has different mechanics.
I’d say agriculture’s influence is that it’s a big incentive for people to stay in one place and develop relative dense communities, that density is what is actually speeding up progress.
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Now if only our technology can speed up the biggest scientific problems of our day without politics getting in the way of progress.
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
Oh we’re speeding up the problems alright
Enkrod@feddit.org 4 days ago
Nooooo! Not like this :´(